Ghost town's cemetery reborn

(KUSA) - When Stacey Rehbein discovered her own family's ties to a historic cemetery in an abandoned Colorado mountain town, she felt like it was her duty to help restore it.

"I don't know. I really can't explain it. I felt like I needed to do it," Rehbein said.

Tucked away in the mountains southwest of Leadville, the town of Winfield started as a silver mining town in 1889. While searching through her own genealogy, Rehbein found out that her great, great grandfather lived in Winfield.

There is also a little cemetery that fell into disrepair. When Rehbein found it, it was overgrown with poorly marked graves, many of them unknown. So, Rehbein and the Clear Creek Canyon Historical Society decided to restore the cemetery.

"They needed to be remembered even if we didn't know all their names," Rehbein said.